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John Slade, Medical Staffing Manager for The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, outlines the benefits the trust is gaining from working with Zircadian on the development of an e-rostering system specifically for junior doctors.

Using an e-rostering system can save trusts significant sums each year, while ensuring patient services are maintained or even improved. Recent changes in working practices for junior doctors means that trusts are often forced to use expensive locums to fill gaps on rosters. As well as being a costly option, anecdotal evidence has shown that external locums are often not as efficient or knowledgeable of local working practices as internal locums and therefore could be putting patient safety at risk.

Background
In 2010 West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust was challenged by the BMA on behalf of a number of junior doctors regarding the working practice of their rota. These representations were based on evidence provided through monitoring exercises, undertaken during the doctors' placement at the hospital. The BMA claimed that the exercises in question showed the rota to be non-compliant with both the New Deal and European Working Time Directive due to the following:
- a failure by the Trust to ensure that the doctors received their natural breaks on at least 75% of their duties;
- the Trust target for natural breaks should have been 100% rather than 75%.
The doctors claimed that the working pattern on the rota was non-compliant for the relevant period and that this had been accepted by the Trust, and therefore that band 3 payments should be made. If successful, this would have resulted in the Trust making over £750,000 of additional salary payments for past, present and future doctors of this rota.

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Introduction and overview
eHealth offers a potent means for health services in EMEA, and worldwide, to tackle the daunting challenges of the 21st century. Ageing populations, long-term management of chronic illnesses, escalating costs1, changing patterns of disease, and a worldwide shortage of healthcare workers are all driving the need for health information and communication technology (ICT) to improve healthcare administration and delivery.
For future sustainability, the healthcare system demands efficient and affordable access to finite healthcare resources, improving care for all and reducing healthcare inequalities. To achieve its potential, eHealth must facilitate the secure movement of patient data out of system silos and transform it into intelligence for improved patient administration and enablement of patient-centred, coordinated care.

The move away from paper-based medical records systems to electronic medical records (EMR) is rightly viewed as a step towards improving patient outcomes, increasing clinician productivity, and lowering costs. The transition, however, is often hampered by the challenge of providing secure access to patient information, particularly given the increased focus on regulatory compliance. From an IT perspective, the mandate is clear: access to patient information must be not only secure but also fast, convenient, and reliable. Technologies that provide security but frustrate clinicians-by slowing them down or adding steps to their everyday tasks-will slow adoption of EMR to a crawl.

Whether prompted by the compliance requirements of HIPAA or GLBA, the growing need to strengthen
IT security, or mounting user frustration due to forgotten passwords, more and more organizations are thinking seriously about implementing Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO). According to Giga Research analyst Steve Hunt, "Enterprise SSO works well and makes sense. It is a secure, cost effective tool for adding value to an organization. It would be wise for vendors to implement it today."

Today’s CIOs no longer just oversee technology. They are now
key strategists who guide their organizations and give them
the tools they need to stay competitive. A study by Forbes
Research stated that five years ago, a CIO’s most critical
skill was deploying technology. Now, the #1 way that CIOs
provide value is by contributing to the corporate strategy, so
they can advance business objectives and drive revenue.1
In particular, CEOs rely on the CIO for guidance around
digital transformation. Organizations must transform how
they operate and take advantage of new technologies to
better engage customers and employees.
Digital transformation falls squarely on the shoulders of IT
leaders. CIOs are under pressure to drive transformation –
overcoming barriers such as cultures that are resistant to
change, employees who want to upload files anywhere,
and increased concerns about data security.
CEOs also expect CIOs to achieve results now. The
longer you wait, the more likely you will fall beh

"Customers in the midst of digital transformation look first to the public cloud when
seeking dramatic simplification, cost, utilization and flexibility advantages for their new
application workloads. But using public cloud comes with its own challenges. It’s often
not as easy as advertised. And it’s not always possible or practical for enterprises to retire
their traditional, on-premises enterprise system still running the company’s most mission-critical workloads. Hybrid IT – a balanced combination of traditional infrastructure,
private cloud and public cloud – is the answer. "

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The modern workplace is anywhere
Complex work. Specialised teams all over the place. They’re in offices, homes, hotels, cars and airports. It could hardly be any more different to the days when people sat in neat rows of desks. That’s the modern reality of business life—it’s happening everywhere at once.
Not only that, it’s happening on all kinds of devices, from desktop to mobile. And every generation of worker expects to have its workstyle accommodated.
Today, co- workers mingle flexibly in pairs and groups, and those teams thrive on exchanging creative energy. They meet up in spaces designed specifically to encourage the cross-pollination of ideas. Their disruptive new concepts are where the next big growth opportunities are. The modern workplace is one where ongoing innovation is valued above all else. And flexibility extends well beyond four walls.
Think about the way you work today and how it has evolved. Chances are it’s no longer 9 ‘til 5.
Mobile employees, contract workers, fr

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Now the evolution of parts is accelerating dramatically in many industries resulting in shorter product life cycles and lower volumes of casted parts between cycles. Waiting for tooling for obsolete parts for aging aircraft also mean delays for aircraft to be repaired, costing time and money. Demand for faster foundry production is increasing in all industries and foundries need to be ready to respond.
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NICE has made a significant investment into AI and ML techniques that are embedded into its core workforce management solution, NICE WFM. Recent advancements include learning models that find hidden patterns in the historical data used to generate forecasts for volume and work time. NICE WFM also has an AI tool that determines, from a series of more than 40 models, which single model will produce the best results for each work type being forecasted. NICE has also included machine learning in its scheduling processes which are discussed at length in the white paper.

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